MPs consider calls for greater transparency for parole board hearings The chair of the Parole Board told the House of Commons’ justice committee that the public did not understand their decision making process properly because they ‘don’t...

Victims of black cab rapist welcome ruling allowing challenge to release Victims of the black cab rapist welcomed a ruling yesterday allowing to challenge to the decision to release him from jail. The Justice Secretary last month ordered a review...

Home Office discriminated against mentally ill detainee in breach of duty to make reasonable adjustments The expanding reach of equality law has been making in-roads into human rights based challenges to state detention for some time now, not...

Lauri Love wins extradition appeal Lauri Love has won his High Court appeal against his extradition to the US. Love was arrested in the UK in 2013 and accused by the US of stealing ‘massive amounts’ of confidential data from...

Brexit, Trump, and the human rights fallacy That the 2018 Rule of Law Index shows diminishing human rights in almost two thirds of the 113 countries surveyed reflects the fact that for decades states at the forefront of the so-called liberal...

Now we have finally woken up to the reality of disclosure failures, what next? There has rightly been anger at recent failures of police and prosecutors to disclose evidence to the defence, including in the cases of Liam Allan and Oliver Mears...

‘We are witnessing a global deterioration in fundamental aspects of the rule of law’ Human rights weakened in almost two-thirds of countries in 2017, according to an international survey measuring the rule of law in over 100...

Liam Allen accuses police of cherry-picking evidence Liam Allan accused the police of ‘cherry picking’ evidence after his rape trial collapsed following a bungled police inquiry and said every day in his ordeal was a ‘battle’. Allan spent almost...

‘I hate to say I told you so but…’ News yesterday that Key Forensic Services has gone into receivership will come as no surprise to those who have campaigned against the decision to close the Forensic Science Service (FSS). This...

Joint enterprise: ‘one of the biggest miscarriages of justice ever to face our justice system’ The controversial common law doctrine of joint enterprise has produced ‘one of the biggest and most widespread miscarriages of justice ever to face...

One in three people facing legal problems in the UK report suffering health issues as a result Almost one-third of people with legal problems in the UK suffer​ a stress-related or physical illness as a result​, according to a new international...

MoJ face another challenge to ‘catastrophic’ legal aid cuts for defence firms The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) faces yet another challenge to its ongoing restrictions on access to justice, after the Law Society last week issued proceedings in...